mare/ONDA — Lia Mazzari
The selected project for the second SIT-PLU residency at Lungomare
Upcoming
ONDA by Lia Mazzari is the project selected for the second SIT-PLU residency at Lungomare, which will begin in January 2027 as part of Riverscapes and their Ecological Interconnections.
Selected from over 150 applications from around the world, ONDA explores the river landscapes of Bolzano through listening and audio transmission, transforming the river into a radio broadcaster connected to other contexts.
At the heart of the project, a temporary kiosk will open in spring 2027, becoming a place of hospitality, contemplation and discovery, dedicated to encounters and to tuning into changing river environments in real time.
Through an ongoing process of exchange with local communities, artists and researchers, this space will come to life throughout the programme. The aim is to develop a schedule of activities and broadcasts that explores different ways and possibilities of engaging in dialogue with rivers, the ecosystems they sustain, and the relationships that emerge and accumulate around them.
About the artist
Lia Mazzari (b. Merano, Italy) is an artist and researcher based in Bristol, UK. Her practice explores listening as a way of encountering environments across distances and in real time. Working with live audio transmission, radio, installation, film, performance and composition, she creates situations in which human and more-than-human environments can be experienced as they unfold. Her recent work uses open-source transmission technologies to establish live listening networks across rivers, glaciers and other shifting landscapes, exploring how sound can make different temporalities, ecological processes and forms of connection perceptible. Her wider practice spans cryospheric sound transmissions, activist radio labs, experimental cello concerts and whip cracking performances. Winner of an Oram Award in 2022, Lia has presented work internationally across art, music and research contexts. She is currently an AHRC/Techne-funded PhD researcher at the Centre for GeoHumanities, Royal Holloway, University of London.